Archive for the ‘Thriller’ Category
Why I love writing thrillers
27 Nov 2020WHY I LOVE WRITING THRILLERS My twice award-nominated noir thriller The Breaking of Liam Glass officially comes out in its…
Win a personally signed hardback copy of The Breaking of Liam Glass
18 Nov 2020COMPETITION: THE BREAKING OF LIAM GLASS To celebrate the launch of the second edition of my 5* darkly humorous thriller…
Room 15 out today
27 Jul 2020ROOM 15 OUT TODAY It’s here. Publication day for Room 15 – psychological mystery thriller. And to celebrate the day…
Room 15 launch competition
26 Jul 2020ROOM 15 LAUNCH COMPETITION Room 15 is almost here. Publication day arrives tomorrow – Monday July 27 2020 – and…
Room 15 launch events
22 Jul 2020ROOM 15 LAUNCH EVENTS At last, it’s preorder day and I can share the cover of my new psychological mystery…
Spies like us – review of Kate Atkinson’s Transcription
22 Apr 2020SPIES LIKE US Fiction writers are liars by trade and spy novelists are the biggest liars of all. Their entire…
Collateral damage – review of Berta Isla by Javier Marías
19 Feb 2020BERTA ISLA Last month I reviewed the latest, possibly last, novel by one of the giants of spy fiction, Agent…
Angry movies at the Baftas
29 Jan 2020ANGRY MOVIES AT THE BAFTAS We live in angry times, it seems. So I shouldn’t have been surprised when I…
John le Carré’s new novel Agent Running in the Field – review
15 Jan 2020AGENT RUNNING IN THE FIELD REVIEW There’s something about books written by masters of their craft towards the end of…
Dark night of the soul? Review of Louise Doughty’s Platform Seven
25 Oct 2019REVIEW: PLATFORM SEVEN I like dark stories. I have no problem with light stories, either, but there’s something about a…